Definition of Avertable

1. Adjective. Capable of being avoided or warded off.

Exact synonyms: Avertible, Avoidable, Evitable
Derivative terms: Avert, Avert, Avoid
Antonyms: Inevitable

Definition of Avertable

1. Adjective. Preventable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Avertable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avertable

aversion
aversion therapy
aversions
aversive
aversive behaviour
aversive conditioning
aversive stimulus
aversive therapy
aversive training
aversively
aversiveness
aversivenesses
aversives
avert
avertable (current term)
averted
averter
averters
avertible
avertiments
avertin
averting
avertress
avertresses

Literary usage of Avertable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Day of the Saxon by Homer Lea (1912)
"The British Empire will be destroyed only through those avertable causes which the Saxon now dreads to contemplate. Yet it is because of this evasion that ..."

2. NATO in the Fifth Decade by Keith Dunn, Stephen Flanagan (1992)
"... without the wholehearted support of the population, which is almost impossible to obtain unless a clear and undeniable danger is avertable only by war. ..."

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